![]() It was also a Book of the Month pick and an Amazon Best Book of August 2018. The Air You Breathe was named one of the best books of 2018 by Kirkus Reviews. A miniseries version of the film aired on Brazil’s Globo network. It has been translated into nine languages and was adapted for film under the title Entre Irmãs. The Seamstress won the Elle Grand Prix for fiction, the Friends of American Writers Award, and the James Michener-Copernicus Society of America Fellowship. ![]() Their lives take them on different, yet interconnected paths: Luzia is abducted by a band of outlaw cangaceiros and must fight to survive, while Emília marries into a wealthy family and must learn to navigate Recife’s high society. The novel is set in Northeast Brazil during the early 1930s, and it follows two sisters from the state of Pernambuco. A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she is the author of the novels The Seamstress (2008) and The Air You Breathe (2018).įrances received a Fulbright Grant and a Sacatar Foundation Fellowship to spend time in Brazil conducting research for her first novel, The Seamstress. ![]() Frances de Pontes Peebles was born in Pernambuco, Brazil, and grew up in Miami, Florida. ![]()
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